The earlier timeline picks up immediately after GREY SISTER ends, with the ensuing chase from Sherzal’s palace. HOLY SISTER begins with a split between two different timelines, three years apart.
As a climax to that book, it was a pretty good one, and as the book ended shortly after the escape, I assumed that this meant everyone had made it back to the convent safely. They’d just escaped from the clutches of the Emperor’s sister, Sherzal, and her clutch of Noi-Guin assassins, and were trying to get safely home. GREY SISTER kind of left Nona and several of the nuns from the Convent of Sweet Mercy in a bit of a pickle. HOLY SISTER ( Amazon) by Mark Lawrence is the final story in the Book of the Ancestor - a tale told largely through the eyes of one Nona Grey. As such, if you haven’t read the first two books in the series, you should probably do that instead of proceeding any further.
Honestly, I was a little surprised at what I found. This book gave me a chance to not only finish consuming my first “Mark Lawrence” series, but also to look back on the series as a whole and decide what I thought about it. I’ve read plenty of great books with weak endings that I still enjoyed overall, and no matter how “awesome” an ending is, if the story up to that point is drawn out and boring… the ending won’t make up for the fact that everything else was drawn out and boring. Unlike some, I’m not one that ascribes to the opinion that the ending of a book will largely determine your opinion of a book. In a way, endings can make or break a story, whether that’s referring to a chapter, a book, or even an entire series.
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